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Ahnentafel for
"Noni" Sawyer CFA #028Please note that there are photos and family stories at the end of this ahnentafel.
1. Winonah Lillian "Noni" Chapman born Aug 8 1932, Tecumseh, Pottawatomie Co., OK, married Jun 7 1948, in Tujunga, Los Angeles Co, CA, Charles Vernon Sawyer.
Parents
2. Trumond Edward Chapman born Feb 22 1902, Coweta, Wagoner Co., OK, married Oct 25 1924, in Tecumseh, Pottawatomie Co., OK, Nora Lillian Robertson, born Sep 14 1908, Norman, Cleveland Co., OK, died Mar 28 1993. Trumond died Dec 25 1980, Panorama City, Los Angeles Co., CA.
3. Nora Lillian Robertson born Sep 14 1908, Norman, Cleveland Co., OK, died Mar 28 1993. She disliked the name "Nora" and was known as "Lillian."
Grand Parents
4. Lilbern Washington Chapman born Dec 8 1868, Malta Bend, Saline Co., MO, married Nov 30 1897, in Muskogee, Muskogee Co., OK, Thrusa Long, born Sep 19 1881, Lamar, Barton Co., MO, died Jan 2 1948, Santa Rosa, Sonoma Co., CA. Lilbern died Sep 6 1952, Santa Rosa, Sonoma Co., CA.
5. Thrusa Long born Sep 19 1881, Lamar, Barton Co., MO, died Jan 2 1948, Santa Rosa, Sonoma Co., CA.
Great Grand Parents
8. Ferdinand Kent Chapman born Mar 25 1836, Barren Co., KY, married Sep 7 1859, in Saline Co., MO, Elizabeth Talbert, born ___ __ 1838, Missouri, died ___ __ 1869, Malta Bend, Saline Co., MO. Ferdinand died Abt __ 1879.
9. Elizabeth Talbert born ___ __ 1838, Missouri, died ___ __ 1869, Malta Bend, Saline Co., MO.
Great Great Grand Parents
16. William Chapman, Jr. born ___ __ 1806, Barren Co., KY, married May 31 1827, in Barren Co., KY, Elizabeth B. Tapscott, born ___ __ 1808, Buckingham Co., VA, died Abt __ 1855. William died Aug 14 1864, Carroll Co., MO.
17. Elizabeth B. Tapscott born ___ __ 1808, Buckingham Co., VA, died Abt __ 1855.
3rd Great Grand Parents
32. William Chapman born ___ __ 1775, Wythe Co, VA, married Jun 1 1796, in Lincoln Co., KY, Mary Ann Bird, born Abt __ 1780, Virginia, died Abt __ 1845, Barren Co., KY. William died ___ __ 1840, Barren Co., KY.
33. Mary Ann Bird born Abt __ 1780, Virginia, died Abt __ 1845, Barren Co., KY.
4th Great Grand Parents
64. Edward Chapman born Abt __ 1745, Frederick Co., VA, married Abt __ 1768, in Staunton, Augusta Co., VA, Sarah McCorkle, born Abt __ 1750, Rockbridge Co., VA, died Bef __ 1820, Barren Co., KY. Edward died August 1788, Lincoln Co. KY.
65. Sarah McCorkle born Abt __ 1750, Rockbridge Co., VA, died Bef __ 1820, Barren Co., KY.
5th Great Grand Parents
128. Richard Chapman born about 1720, probably Virginia, married Mary _____. Until we have more specifics we will not list his othe children. Noni Sawyer says they were Daniel, Sampson, Richard, Jr. and Job.
128. Mary _____.
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Lilbern Washington & Thrusa Chapman
I have included three different “stories” written by Dad, his sister Alta and younger brother Lilburn– They certainly give different views of their early life. But this we know about our Grandpa. He was born December 8, 1869 in Malta Bend, Saline County, Missouri. Before he was three his mother died, then when he was around ten he was in an accident breaking his back. It was not set correctly and left him crippled such that he grew to less than five feet and weighed less than 100 pounds. But this did not seem to slow him down in life. When he was about twelve his father died, and he along with his older brother John were passed around to relatives to raise. In short time - by the time Lilbern was sixteen - they struck out on their own.
Grandmother Thrusa was not having much of an easier time either. When her parents divorced, her mother had custody of the children given to her by the court. Her father “stole” her and her two brothers and ran away to Arizona, which wasn’t a state yet. When her father remarried, Thrusa was used for caring for the children and house work, not a happy life for her. Somehow she was able to locate her mother, who had remarried by then, and her mother sent her money to go back to Missouri. Thrusa went although her father was very angry at her.
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Grandpa by this time had done a variety of different jobs. He had a small amount of education and was a smart man. He lived in Oklahoma Territory by now, and what he told in later stories, with an outlaw “John Shirley,” was a Deputy and a Court Clerk. He and his older brother John inherited $1400.00 from an aunt, and when he went back to Missouri to collect it, he met Thrusa. He must have been a “charmer” to, for he bought a wagon, mules and supplies and along with Thrusa, they stop in Muskogee, OK and got married November 30, 1897. Grandpa was 29 and Grandmother was sixteen.
-<+>-The lived in Coweta, and their five children were born to them. The tragedy of their first two sons dying as babies from fever, left dad the oldest and they moved in town, grandmother fearful of losing him. They lived about eleven years in Coweta, but was hearing from Thrusa father in Arizona how things were booming. So about 1912 or 1913, they moved to Globe, Arizona. From all the older children, there is no doubt the six years they lived there were the happiest of their lives. Grandpa had a good job, the had a nice house in town and things went very well until the miners went on strike. They had one daughter in Globe, the last two children were born in Oklahoma where because of trouble of the strike, they returned. There they had a small farm, life was hard and the older children soon left home.
It was in the 1930's that the trek of the Chapman’s started west to California, ours was the last to leave Oklahoma in 1939.
Photos -
GLOBE, ARIZONA, 1915/16
Lilbern & Thrusa (Long) Chapman
Back row- Alma, Alta & Trumond
Front - Lilbern, Thrusa & Louetta1940 Sebastopol, Calif
Back row- Thrusa, Trumond, Lilbern Jr. & Louella
Front- Alma & Jewel1940 Porterville, Calif
Trumond & Lillian Chapman Children
Edward, Eva, Patricia & Noni (Winonah)Oct 24 1974 Shadow Hills, Calif
50th Wedding Anniversary
Lillian and Trumond ChapmanOct 24 1974 Shadow Hills, Calif
Pat, Edward, Mom & Dad (Lillian & Trumond)
Eve & Noni on floorTecumseh, OK
Noni (Winonah) Chapman, age 2June 1948 Tujunga, CA
Noni and Charles Sawyer weddingJuly 1998 Branson MO
50th Anniversary (see sign)
Noni and Chuck Sawyer
37071 Tovey Avenue
PALMDALE CA 93551
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